Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-09
REAL ESTATE.
The Combination Land Co.
SPECIAL NO. 4.

Were jolly and genial ana iona OF the arts,
Their tastes were refined, their manners were
polished,
But their manner OF living affected their
hearts.
They neglected their business, they gave
themselves airs.
Read the poets in Greek, supped their
wine, took their rest,
Never troubling their beautiful heads with
affairs,
And as for their morsls-the least said the
best.
The scandal grew greater and greater; and
then
An appeal to the people was formally made,
The old gods were displaced by the suffrage
And popular government formed in their
stead"
But time rolls around and Athena and Juno
And Daphne and Hebe and Flora anu
Crete,
And dozen or more Heather women whom
Each finds work at LEucADrA, naming
street.
The Tyre that in Hades once twangcd for
Now praises LEUcADIA, Queen of our Coast,
And the Tyre tells the truth when it says
ne'er before did see
A place where the truth seems lie and
boast.
Where else is a spot where the fig and the
pumpkin
viii grow side by side without water or
And each visitor feel as if he were some kin
To a God when he breathes the electrical
air?
If a man has hundred or two hundred
He will buy a lot there, not day will he
wait,
For LEUcADIA the lovely, the darling, the
Is the brightest and neatest young town in
the State.
For climate for health for beauty or bust
| ness,
| LEUcADiA we praise in Hexameters slow
Let our readers with spi its elated to dizzi-
/ ness,
Attend at the auction and bid with bow.
There are hundreds of thousands of acres
of land in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and
San Diego counties, suitable for orchards and
vineyards.
But there Is emily one seaside, and only one
LEUCADIA. There are hundreds of thousands
of acres now dry and uncultivated, which
en- by labor be changed into garden or
chards.
But there Is only one strip of land which
fronts the sea, only one fundamental chord
upon which the surges of ocean sound their
mighty diapason, only one place where Dame
Nature wears her skiIt of translucent beryl
embroidered with foamy lace. And nowhere
is this music-room and picture gallery of the
Deity SO attractive as at LEUcADIA.
Capital can construct reservoirs and fumes
and railroads; it can make distant acres &c
cessible, and cause arid acres to undulate
with verdure.
But the wealth of Jay Gould could not
bring the iodined healing breath of ocean to
the bedside of the invalid in the hot valley,
or add one yard to the present limited supply
of ocean beach,
We say limited-go to the map and lookl
All the seaside north OF Santa Barbara may
be eliminated from the list of available
ocean-side property. The Japanese ocean
current-the "Gulf Stream" OF the Pacific,
In its southward journey from Arctic waters
hugs the shore closely from the Straits OF
Fuca to Point Conception. The result is
cold Waterloo cold for comfortable bath.
ing. Monterey, for instance, is in the lati-
tude of Savannah, Georgia, but nine people
out of ten who visit Monterey bathe in the
big tanks where the water is warmed by arti.
fetal heat and do not bathe in the ocean
| Ab LOT DdNtdITuZ, JHeTe IN Wrltten
by some shivering pleasure seeker, on the
walls of bath-house there, which couplet ac-
curately expresses the situation.
''Santa Cruz water is like Scotch snuff,
One dip" and you've got enough"
At Point Concepcion-just above Santa
Barbara-the cold, ocean current continues
southward in direct course, while the
Coast line defects eastwardly at a sharp
angle, and in few miles the water, under
the genial suns of this latitude, becomes
warm enough to make bathing i'll any month
| of the ar a real pleasure instead of "a
painful duty reluctantly performed" as
Fugitive Slave Law, and as Brigham Young
remarked when he married his eighteenth
wife.
From Santa Barbara south to Point Vicente,
| there is but little coast that is available for
seaside resorts The beach Is too steep for
driving, and the surf consequently too heavy
to make bathing either pleasant or safe,
while the bluff along the beach is several
| hundred feet in height, and cut up with
arr0yOs, so AS to make the ocean practically
inaccessible to all except Alpine tourists and
/ or ws.
From Point Vicente to San Pedro there are
probably twenty or thirty miles of available
| beach, along which are the towns of Santa
Monica, BallOna. Long Beach, etc.
Below San Pedro there are only mud flats
and iagoons, until San Juan by the sea is
reached. Leaving San Juan, there is no
ground available for seaside resort until
| the mouth OF Temecula Canon is crossed and
Oceanside reached. AT Oceanside, the direct
road from Los Angeles to San Diego, now in
process of construction, will connect with
the California Southern Railroad from Col
| ton to San Diego. Oceanside lots are held at
good figures, fifteen hundred dollars for
lot on the Ocean avenue and FIVE hundred
dollars for residence lots a mile and more
from the beach. South of Oceanside is the
| Aqua Hedionda 1t has several miles of fine
seaside, but the owner is able to keep it, he
will not sell at any price, and If you annoy
him with an attempt to talk about selling, he
will make the interview as brief as may be
consistent with courtesy. Then comes Carls-
| bad, aud 1t 10 beautiful location, and there
will be large town there. and prices Of lots
are already away up, as they ought to be.
| From Carlsbad south there are lagoons, sand
dunes and broken ground until you reach
| the mouth of the San Marcos. From the San
Marcos south to Encenitas Is the prettiest site
in the world for an ocean city, and on this site
| is "Leucadia"-the subject of our sketch
| lies in the lap of Paradise. She is the fairest
of all the fair daughters of the sea. She is the
The beach is hard and level. You can drive
along it for twelve miles. For bathing there
| is no need Of lines, for the surf is SO light it
would not upset baby, and there being no
| stingrays From the edge of the bluff over,
hanging the beach the ground slopes gently
| up to the top of the first ridge. then it de-
scends gentlyt avalley, through which the
| to the top of the second ridge mile or SO
| away.
The amazing thing about Leucadia, and in
which 1t differs from every other seaside in
| California, is in the wonderful fertility of
| its soil. The valley and hill slopes are COW
cred with Fig, Apricot, Eucalyptus and
| other trees, and they are green with vine
yards and corn fie DIS.
Leucadia is in process of preparation for
| the market. Streets and avenues have been
| cleared graded, staked and named after
| Greek deities and personages. A drinking
| fountain and bath house are being erected
ata white sulphur well on Hygeria avenue.
| Bath houses on the beach and steps and
| grades thereto have been constructed. A
| railroad station, after the model0f the Pan
| theon, hiss been :uilt, and q dining-rOom
| which is conducted by skilful cook. An
| underground stream of water has been
| struck which will be raised by cyclone mills
10 reservoir on the summit of high hill,
from which pipes are now being laid through
the avenues.